How long do you think that will take . I have to i do not i know we are partially through the Associated Press request. Ill just ask a request, if the chairman asks for the calendars, how long will it take . I have to find out how many more have to be processed. How many more what . We at least as a courtesy, as part of the agreement, we mark documents to the congress about whether or not their public release would be detrimental. This is just a calendar. If the secretary of state was having a meeting, a sensitive meeting with a Foreign Government shes not there anymore. The existence of that meeting, sir, could be dispositive along the lines of activities that secretary kerry is carrying on. To be clear, im not talking about, sir, withholding information from you. But we have to process it so that you know what we consider sensitive as opposed to let me move to something else. According to the inspector generals office, the state department has previously reported that Certain Records
Century washe 19th george white of North Carolina in 1901. It is a long time before another African American comes into the house. That is oscar dupree from illinois. We have a couple of really rare artifacts from him from the 1920s and 30s. Before i launch into them, matt, tell us about oscar dupree. And how he got into congress. Decades is almost three after George Henry White leaves congress when there are no African Americans who served in the house or senate to that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south. The way that that changes over time during those decades, there is a critical thing going on in the south were African Americans begin to leave the south and move northward as part of a multidecade movement that would later be called the great migration. That begins, depending on which historian you talk to, the 1890s and runs through world war ii. It picks up momentum around world war i as there is a need in the north to fill industrial job
30,000 people. We had a population of the first census of we had 106 members of 3. 70 5 million. The house would fit in this room and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as a capital, we are taking the story of a new constitution and doing things like adding a new state to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. Secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the commitment to the constitution by coming to the amendments to the constitution by coming to congress in this building and officially announcing we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our history. But also the amendment process itself. We are proving that part of the constitution works, that we can update and make changes to the constitution without having to start completely over from the beginning. But really this building, to a large degree, it is creating the american polit
States, staying out of a war, trading with all sides in europe, not being limited by alliance to france or Something Like this. So were really seeing this treaty become kind of of a symbolic head point between these two sides. And the Senate Approves the treaty. Now according to the constitution Senate Approves treaties and theyre done. The problem is the house of representatives this is our first treaty. The house of representatives says, we want a chance to discuss this treaty as well. And so they demand of washington to see all the papers and so on. Well, he says, no. Senate approves it. You dont have anything do with it. What the house essentially is going doing is they say, maybe what we will try do is take away the funding. We wont pay for this treaty. Anything that has to be paid for, we will not spend the money. Therefore, the treaty will die at this point this time. Thats not necessarily a new strategy that you see with things in washington, d. C. Today. So the big fight in th
Dedicating his flag to all the other men who are still missing in action or prisoners of war in vietnam. A lot of times veterans, if they want to come see the things that they left, we are always willing to give them a tour and show them around. It also helps us because we can connect specific names, donors to what they left. We have a big barrel that was left. I think it was left in 2002. I am too young to know what it was. But i have been told that in vietnam they used it as a letrine. An unfortunate soldier was given the job of burning it. But they came and they gave us a bit of context about what it was and when they left it and why. So thats really cool. Theres some donors who are still really active and want to see the things that they left. So this, as you may or may not know, is a roll of toilet paper. You may wonder why we have it in our collection. But toilet paper was as good as gold in vietnam, because if you were out in the field and you didnt have any toilet paper, you ha